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Timoteo

#2,754 in 2025Boys' name

To honour + god, through Tīmotheus

Timoteo has been given to 1,473 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,754 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Timoteo, 2025

1 in 70,500

Timoteo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Timoteo: meaning, origin, and history

To honour + god, through Tīmotheus

Spanish

What Timoteo means

Timoteo belongs to the name family reached through Timoteo → Timoteo → Tīmotheus → Τῑμόθεος. Its meaning is “to honour + god”.

Origin, language, and formation

Timoteo is used in Cebuano, Italian, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Timoteo comes through Spanish Timoteo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Timothy, Timoteo, Tīmotheus and Τῑμόθεος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Timoteo is pronounced /ˌtimoˈteo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,473 boys were recorded with the name Timoteo between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,423 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,903 in 2020 to #2,754 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,868 in 2015 to #2,754 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Timoteo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,754
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Timoteo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Timoteo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Timoteos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Timoteo was born before 1986 — so the typical Timoteo is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,088
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Timoteo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+287
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,149
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,114
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (47)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,423
1930

Spellings of Timoteo

Timoteo is not the most common spelling — Timothy is, with 99.8% against Timoteo's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Timoteo is used

Across 1910–2025, Timoteo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 50,262 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Timoteo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Timoteo around the world

Where Timoteo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1997–2025
    #4,812
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Timoteo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,754
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,149
Best rank ever
#1,423
1930
Peak year
2025
47 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,473
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Timoteo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Timoteo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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